She is best known not only for her Thus spake Zarathustra oil paintng and graphic cyclebut also for her two paintings so called russophobic due to the conflict between public and private spheres erupted in March 2008, when a group of Russian nationalists took an artist to court for these paintings they believe to be inciting “racial or national animosity". One, Welcome to Russia (1999), hangs in Igor Markin’s private museum Art4.ru; the other, Chimera of the Mysterious Russian Soul (1996) was exhibited only once, at a solo exhibition in the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary art in 2005/The nationalists were offended by the artist’s depiction of the Russian soul as a cartoonish creature with clichéd attributes of Russian...Read More